Comments on: Stool Pigeon

By: Nightfly

Nightfly — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:04:41 +0000

Thank you, Wunder, it’s good to be alive. Life got me busy and I couldn’t keep up with everyone anymore. I’ll try to be less of a stranger. Hope everyone is well where you are!

By: vegas art guy

vegas art guy — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:01:34 +0000

You did the right thing. What he did was wrong, especially with the guy in the hospital. I live in the desert and that engineer could have died. Doing what’s right is not easy and doing what’s easy is not always right…

By: WunderKraut

WunderKraut — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:44:15 +0000

It’s not that I am beating myself up for it, after all it was back in 1998.

But, something has happened here at work that brought all this back up again. It is nothing I did or saw or anything like that. Rather it is cleaning up someone elseâ€™s mess from 7 years ago when no one stood up and said it was wrong.

So, I wrote this as therapy for me. It has been a hard few days around here and I get upset when I see people NOT stand up for what is right. I get upset when people toss their weight around and threaten and intimidate. I get upset when I see good people cower at the fear of getting fired for standing up for what is right.

Now, I am left to clean up the mess.

By: Crotalus

Crotalus — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:00:52 +0000

Mean people and dishonest people make me mad. I have very little sympathy for them. The things I beat myself up for are the times I’ve been mean and dishonest. I wouldn’t lose a second of sleep over ratting a rat out.

By: WunderKraut

WunderKraut — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:50:38 +0000

Also, this sound clip matches how I felt, but again, it was a long time ago and all I did was tell the truth.

By: WunderKraut

WunderKraut — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:47:51 +0000

Nightfly…good to see you are still alive! It’s been ages.

Yeah, I know I did the right thing, but there is a strange sense of loyalty even in these situations. But in the end, it was the right thing to do.

By: prechrchet

prechrchet — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:47:01 +0000

If all you did was tell the truth, then the fault lies elsewhere. You yourself say that you would not have done anything different. That should tell you something.

(Just my two cents.)

By: Nightfly

Nightfly — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:44:36 +0000

Nyah, we got a stoolie, see? One of youse boids sang, didnya? Whyioughta…

Not that I thought of the railroad as the Thin Transit Line or anything, but it’s surprising that all these folks were implying that you were wrong for doing the right thing. I mean, that’s how this jerk got to be a Supreme Jerk for all those years, right? And obviously nobody “took care of it in the switchhouse.” So, ye’ve done your job. Go home and sleep well tonight.